Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Skiing selfie
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:38:16 -0600
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On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:44 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:

> On the LUG there are bikers, hikers, occasional sailors, leaf peepers, 
> gardeners, foodies, and bird watchers. But are they any other winter 
> sports enthusiasts? My wife and I are in the middle of our annual XC ski 
> vacation in Vermont. Unfortunately there is very little snow. These are 
> the worst midwinter ski conditions that I have ever experienced. The well 
> publicized Arctic vortex provided freezing temperatures in all the US 
> states in North America but the snow fell in narrow belts in the midwest 
> and the Atlantic coast. I have been a XC country skier since an army 
> assignment in in 1955 at the polar bear capital of the world, Ft. 
> Churchill, Canada. I have more pairs of skis than I have Leica lenses. 
> Here is a selfie taken with a P&S camera while skiing today.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Skiing+selfie.jpg.html
> Are there any other winter sports enthusiasts, Alpine skiers, ski jumpers, 
> ice skaters, sledders, or snowball fighters on the LUG??

Good to see you ;)

And I remember those days fondly.
Did a good deal of x-country skiing
before the knees got to torn up.

The last time I went out - maybe a decade ago
what was once pure pleasure
felt like torture.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist



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